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U+255B · BOX DRAWINGS UP SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE

Box Drawings Up Single and Left Double

  • CodepointU+255B
  • NameBOX DRAWINGS UP SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE
  • Decimal9563
  • BlockBox Drawing (U+2500–U+257F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+255B (╛) is BOX DRAWINGS UP SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE, a symbol in the Box Drawing block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ╛

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 95 9B3 bytes
UTF-16255B1 code unit
UTF-320000255B4 bytes
HTML named╛named character reference
HTML decimal╛
HTML hex╛
CSS\255Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u255B
JSON\u255B
Python\u255B
Python\N{BOX DRAWINGS UP SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE}by name
Java / C#\u255B
C / C++\u255Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{255B}
Go\u255B
Ruby\u255B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9563)
URL-encoded%E2%95%9Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Box Drawing

All in block →
U+2555╕Box Drawings Down Single and Left Double U+2556╖Box Drawings Down Double and Left Single U+2557╗Box Drawings Double Down and Left U+2558╘Box Drawings Up Single and Right Double U+2559╙Box Drawings Up Double and Right Single U+255A╚Box Drawings Double Up and Right U+255C╜Box Drawings Up Double and Left Single U+255D╝Box Drawings Double Up and Left U+255E╞Box Drawings Vertical Single and Right Double U+255F╟Box Drawings Vertical Double and Right Single U+2560╠Box Drawings Double Vertical and Right U+2561╡Box Drawings Vertical Single and Left Double